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Korean community unhappy with Season 4 World Championship plans

As it would seem, many Korean fans are not happy with the decision to split the group stages off to other countries besides Korea.

In a post on monster Korean community Inven, it would seem the lack of Worlds exclusivity for South Korea has caused an uproar amongst Korean fans.  Many of the fans feel cheated as they feel Riot Games has been slacking in their involvement with South Korea.  

Much of this stems off the early assumption that all of Worlds would be held in Korea after the initial announcement.
 

Early this year Riot announced that Worlds would be held in Korea, everyone was so happy. But today they announced that Worlds wouldn't be held exclusively in Korea, but rather between Korea and SEA, and backstabbed all the Korean fans. All this seems to show they consider Korean customers to be not just moneybags, but degenerates of IQ 50.

 

In addition, the group stage has been referred to as the "milk and honey" of a tournament, due to the appearance of all the teams and all rivaled and theoretical matchups taking place.  This is because the varying metagames and regional clashes that occur despite who makes it into the playoffs.
 

The most interesting games happen during group stages when metagames of different regions clash with one another, and there are in general more games, and since various teams go against each other to try their best to make it through, it's the next best thing after finals. Also, because the participating teams play soloqueue in the region Worlds is held in, all the fun stuff happens during group stages, when teams who didn't make it to Worlds get to scrim with World qualifiers, funny anecdotes when foreign players play soloqueue, etc. However, leaving this opportunity to SEA means Worlds is held in Korea in words only; SEA take all the fun and glory while Korea is left nothing but the honor that is supposed to come with hosting Finals.
 


The full translation. credit to user Eemkay can be found in the Reddit thread here.

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